Items Tagged with 'Operations'

Improvement initiatives in safety face challenges due to structural issues in the administration of operations, management and practices.

The traditional approaches to managing human performance may not be effective. Here’s a new approach to performance evaluation.

Traditionally, performance has been managed by setting goals for employees to achieve or accomplish. Here’s a new perspective.

Why are workers getting hurt in spite of safety standards, programs, policies, procedures, training, and possibly everyone’s best efforts?

To improve their safety, outcomes some organizations advocate "everyone is responsible for safety." The thinking behind this is that it will create a universal mindset in their workforce to actively engage everyone. The fundamental problem with this thinking is that it is not practical to hold a group accountable for individual behavior. 

As technology improves and changes, it is crucial to make sure procedures and practices are up-to-date, modern and match up with required safety standards.

A pilots union has mounted a legal challenge to the FAA's exclusion of cargo operations from the final flight and duty time rule issued yesterday.